On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 02:04:54PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 16:38 -0500, John.Florian@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > With the best of intentions, we'd gone from a reluctant exception to the > > > 'no choice' design to a dropdown which included two very different > > > complex choices: LVM and btrfs. So now the installer path which was > > > originally supposed to be minimal-choice, very robust and testable and > > > fixable, had become rather a lot more complex. > > > > Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. > > I don't think that precept applies very well to this area. > > The problem is that there are - and this is probably *literal*, not a > rhetorical flourish - millions of Special Little Use Cases like yours > (the one below, snipped for brevity) out there. *You* want it to be easy > to skip /home. *She* wants it to be easy to resize a Slackware install. > *That guy* wants to use btrfs. *My cat* likes RAID. It is becoming very, > very clear that we just cannot undertake to support them all and > guarantee that they are all going to work in a release. It's just _too > much work_. Everyone agrees that it would be nice if we could, but then > everyone agrees that it'd be nice if I had a solid gold toilet. Some > nice things just don't happen. We do not have the resources to be in the > business of writing the world's biggest disk configuration tool and > guaranteeing that it'll never go wrong, which isn't *quite* what we're > currently trying to do, but it's not far from it. Don't try to be smart to everyone, it does not work. IMHO all you need is to support one or a very few scenarios (complete scenarios without customization) and a way how to switch from installer to manual partitioning by parted/fdisk/mdadm/mkfs/etc. The anaconda partitioning UI will never be smart enough for advanced users and it also does not make sense to duplicate effort, we *already have* tools to create all the unusual crazy disk layouts. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list